The DeeDS prototype integrates active database functionality and critical timing constraints from active and real-time databases. This is combined with unique distribution and integrated monitoring techniques. The aims are to avoid important sources of unpredictability, to guarantee schedulability, and to make scheduling and event monitoring predictable. Our solution to the rst item is based on...

. Automatic liver segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. Manual segmentation of organs is a difficult and tedious task and so prone to human errors. In this paper, we propose an adaptive 3D region growing with subject-specific conditions. For this aim we use the intensity distribution of most probable voxels in prior map along with location prior. We als...

Does considering one’s past prosociality affect future behavior? Prior research has revealed instances in which adults engage in additional prosocial behavior––moral reinforcement––as well as instances in which adults engage in worse behavior––moral licensing. The current study examined the developmental origins of these effects by testing whether sixto eight-year-olds (N=225) are more or less ...

Across six studies, people judged creative forms of unethical behavior to be less unethical than less creative forms of unethical behavior, particularly when the unethical behaviors imposed relatively little direct harm on victims. As a result of perceiving behaviors to be less unethical, people punished highly creative forms of unethical behavior less severely than they punished less-creative ...

In physics, we use the same laws to explain why airplanes fly, and why they crash. In psychiatry, we use one set of laws to explain sane behaviour, which we attribute to reasons (choices), and another set of laws to explain insane behaviour, which we attribute to causes (diseases). God, man's idea of moral perfection, judges human deeds without distinguishing between sane persons responsible fo...

We examined whether people might distort and selectively remember the past in ways that enable them to sustain a belief in a just world (BJW; Lerner, M. J. (1980). The belief in a just world: A fundamental delusion. New York: Plenum Press). In Study 1, recall of a lottery prize reflected participants’ justice concerns, such that the average lottery amount recalled was lowest when a ‘‘bad” versu...